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BILL WILDERExecutive Director bill@studycenter.net

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consideration in the university environment of

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THIS ISSUE:

Remembering Juliaby Shelly Pellish, page 7

On the cover: Jay McCabe leads a discussion on The Magician’s Nephew, part of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Read Lane Cowin’s story about the summer fellowship on page four. (Photo by Elisa Bricker.)

Further Up and Further In: Summer Fellowship at the Studby Lane Cowin, page 4

A Community of Learning and Careby Bill Wilder, page 3

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FAMILY WEEKEND RECEPTION

Join us for a casual evening of hors d'oeuvres, live music and refreshments before you head out to dinner. This is a wonderful opportunity for parents to connect

with Study Center staff as well as other families.

RSVP: WWW.STUDYCENTER.NET/FAMILYWEEKEND

Working Together: Partnering with Grounds Ministries at U.Va.by Jay McCabe, page 6

Fall 2012 Educational ProgramsLectures, small groups and course listings, page 8

Being a Christian Professor at U.Va. Law: Barb Armacostby Barb Armacost, page 10

You’re invited to the Study Center’s

Saturday, October 27 from 5 - 7 pm

The Center for Christian Study has always embraced two main aspects within its ministry. There is, of course, the specific calling to Christian study that gives us our name and accounts for our mission to bibli-cally address “the challenges of contemporary culture.” That’s why we love to bring

in scholars like John Lennox to talk about science and faith—or get Russell Moore to talk about the resurrection during Holy Week. In these forma-tive years we want students to consider all of life, including their University experiences and educa-tion, in the light of the Lordship of Jesus.

But the Study Center is much more (and less) than an academic think tank. In addition to our conversations, lectures, small groups, and cours-es, we sponsor three fellowship groups (at the graduate level), provide counseling services, host an array of hospitality events beginning on Move-In Day and ending with graduation weekend, and daily invite students into our very special com-munity and home here. It might seem a strange combination, but we delight in bringing these apparently disparate elements together: study with hospitality; reflection in community; truth as one element of Christian love. In short, we want to be a community of learning and care.

This strange and wonderful commitment to holistic student ministry right along with a more specific focus on Christian study goes all the way back to the beginning of the Study Center. Some time ago I found an outline from 1976 that described the two aspects of ministry here. There was the “Action ministry” orientation toward

evangelism, discipleship, counseling, and bring-ing the evangelical Christian community together. Then there was the “Christian study” component that strengthened the “intellectual and spiritual understanding of the Christian faith for the col-lege student.” Sound familiar?

That same combination of commitments will continue in the coming year. For one thing, stu-dents will return to a house ready for a new year of ministry: a new study space has been furnished, gutters cleaned, trees trimmed, rooms inside and walls outside cleaned, repaired, and painted. We’re excited too that Lane Cowin, our part-time Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Women last year, is now full-time; and thrilled that two more trained counselors will be available in the building, because of a new ministry partnership with Trinity Presbyterian Church. All that means that, thanks to the generosity of Study Center friends, we’ll have a building and staff ready by Move-In Day to receive students (and their fel-lowship groups) for all the conversations, hanging out, studying, meeting, and caring that goes on here on a day-to-day basis.

At the same time we’ll be inviting students to deepen their understanding of faith as a part of (and a spur to) their love of Christ. We’ve listed the fall offerings at the Study Center later in this newsletter. I hope you’ll have a close look at them. There’s a rich assortment of opportunities, rang-ing from reflections on the state of marriage in our culture to a more general consideration of how our culture (or worship) shapes us in good or bad ways. (Even if you can’t join us in person, those lectures will be available at www.studycen-ter.net.) We also sponsor a wide array of small groups, some of which study Biblical books or passage and others that take a theme of particular

A COMMUNITY OF LEARNING AND CAREby Bill Wilder, Executive Directorbill@studycenter.net

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Bill Wilder

Everyone remembers a good bedtime story. For many of us, the memories of our last moments of wakefulness each night are filled with the sounds of a parent’s voice opening our minds to worlds of wonder and adventure. C.S. Lewis provided some of my own favorite bedtime stories in his famed series, The Chronicles of Narnia.

In his third book of the series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis offers us what may be his reason for writing this series. Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are deeply troubled that upon leaving Narnia and returning to their own world, they might never again see their beloved Aslan. The Lion reassures them that he is in fact in their world, saying,

“But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

Lewis is often praised for his success in portraying “real life” so well within such a vividly fantastical setting. That is, in get-ting to know his Narnia, we get to know our own world and our own selves in profound ways. Lewis’s characters include a delightful array of Talking Beasts and mythical creatures, alongside some very human children. These characters show themselves to have everyday measures of selfishness and fears, of petty competitions and insecure posturing. They also have hopes, longings, and noble efforts to forgive and

interest to University students (the historical Jesus, faith and science, vocational stewardship, faith and culture, etc.).

We will also grapple with things that simply go beyond our understanding. As a Christian com-munity we have already been grieving the death of Tommy Gilliam IV in March 2011. Now we mourn the loss of Julia Green, a rising second-year and dear sister in Christ who died in an automobile accident in early July. Over the next year too we will need constantly to hold out the hope of the gospel to ourselves, perhaps particularly in the words Julia herself had taped to front of her computer: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worth com-paring with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom 8:18).

At the same time, we will continue to mourn—and to weep with those who weep (Rom 12:15). “Blessed are those who mourn,” Jesus said, “for they will be comforted.” So we will be finding ways to grieve and be comforted with the students here at the Study Center in the fall. That includes recommending some painful but true and lovely books that are helping us come to terms with great loss and great hope. We’ve provided a short list of them in this newsletter. I hope you read them, but even more that you will pray your way (for the friends and family of Julia and Tommy) through them.

The Christian faith is often a pulling together of apparently disparate elements. We are called to love God with all our hearts, but also with our minds and strength and soul. We rejoice with those who rejoice; at the same time that we mourn with those who mourn. We contend for the truth even as we love others (and even as a part of that love for them). We have our individual gifts, but they are intended for the good of the whole body. We honor the past even as we look toward the future. We all live in the midst of each of these tensions even as we look forward to the Great Resolution to come. (Come, Lord Jesus!)

The Study Center faces a similar challenge as a min-istry seeking to be faithful to the various aspects of its vision and mission. In the meantime, we pursue our particular calling to be a community of learn-ing and care here at the University of Virginia. It’s a place—diverse and capacious though it may be—for which we are deeply grateful.

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FURTHER UP AND FURTHER INby Lane Cowin, Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Womenlane@studycenter.net

Each Tuesday evening this summer, students (including Rachel Rapp, Natalie Wahl and Amie Gordon) came to the Stud for dinner and dis-cussion about one of the Narnia books. Jay Mc-Cabe’s son, Joel (left), even contributed to the fellowship! Below, Lane Cowin helps facilitate discussion.

sacrifice. I remember reading these stories first as a young child, and many times since, and identifying deeply with a boy-turned-dragon one moment and a talking mouse the next. But most thrilling of all was reading of the Great Lion Aslan, and how each character responded to his presence—or chose to deny it instead.

During the summer months, a number of our undergradu-ates have been enjoying a deeper look into Narnia together. Each Tuesday night, a couple dozen students gather at the Study Center for dinner. We eat and laugh and share about summer adventures (and revel in the extra parking spaces). Then we sit together and read aloud from one of the Narnia

Chronicles and talk about how the Christian story, at times, parallels Lewis’s story of Narnia. We’ve been asking what Lewis means to say about this fantastic world he created, as well as what he might suggest about our own world and our place within it.

I’ve been grateful for how our students have taken the opportunity to engage both stories. Together we’ve asked questions about how our own hearts are tempted to betrayal like Edmund’s (The Lion, the Witch and the Ward-robe), and where fear and resentment might prevent us from repenting and asking for forgiveness. We’ve

discussed how the death of an innocent Savior King can forgive all sins, even those of the worst traitor. We’ve talk-ed about what it means to have others doubt your faith, or harder still, to doubt your own, as Lucy does (Prince Caspian), and why Lewis says the opposite of faith is not doubt but fear. We considered the making of the world, and what it means

to recognize that a powerful and loving God spoke life into it; that he created man in his own image; and that along with the giving us the gift of enjoying his good cre-ation, God commanded us with the careful stewardship of it as his royal representa-tives on the earth. In this time together we have seen how living in Lewis’s Narnia for a little while can help and encourage us to know Christ better in our own lives.

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FURTHER UP AND FURTHER INby Lane Cowin, Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Womenlane@studycenter.net

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WORKING TOGETHERPartnering with Grounds Ministries at U.Va.

by Jay McCabe, Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Menjay@studycenter.net

Many a Monday morning during the school year you will find one of the Study Center staff arranging chairs in a wide oval and put-ting out coffee and doughnuts on a nearby table. That’s not unusual at the Center, but this gathering is a bit different. It’s not a meeting with students but with other cam-pus (“Grounds”) ministry leaders, a time for our ministry staff to gather with others for an hour of Scripture reflection, sharing and prayer. About fifteen groups are represented—staff and interns from the major campus fel-lowship groups together with local pastors and Christian faculty members at U.Va.

Of course, our occasional Grounds ministry meetings only scratch the surface of these relationships. A wise person has repeatedly told me that the key to having a healthy Chris-tian community is what happens outside the formal meetings. This is absolutely the case with our ministry partnerships. Even though I appreciate our official meetings together and much good comes from it, the group is truly sustained by our conversations over lunch or around the building, working together to meet a student need or thinking through how to co-host a special event. It takes so much more than a meeting to work together well as the body of Christ at U.Va.

As I reflect on the value of these partner-ships, the first point worth mentioning is that we have a shared vision and common Lord. All of us long to see God glorified at U.Va. and Jesus’ prayer for the Church fulfilled in us, “that they may be one” (John 17:11). We are primarily bound to one another by our faith in Jesus and then further united in our care for students. It is a privilege but also an act of obedience to know and love these brothers and sisters in Christ.

In light of this calling and responsibility, we are intentional about living and working together. I have a weekly lunch reserved for connecting with Grounds ministry leaders, just to check in and build relationship. This time for simply knowing one another is es-sential for continuing these partnerships and ensuring they are not only organizational or task-driven. As a result, genuine friendships have been formed that allow for mutual sup-port and much needed encouragement.

At the same time, we recognize the great op-portunities to jointly host events and pro-grams for students. Over the past two years, we have worked hard at working together, with wonderful results. For example, we collabo-rated with the Veritas Forum and Grounds ministries to bring Professor John Lennox to the University this past February. In the end there were 1,200 students and others in attendance. We also arranged for lectures by Craig Keener, Russell Moore, and Charles Marsh to be co-sponsored, respectively, by Chi Alpha, InterVarsity, and Theological Horizons, greatly increasing and diversifying the student audience. What a joy it is to work together for the cause of Christ here!

In closing, I want to mention a final value that must not go overlooked in our Grounds ministry partnerships, and that is our shared heart for evangelism. When Jesus prayed for the Church, he asked, “that they may be perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me” (John 17:23). It is an in-credible joy to know that our relationships are not only building up believers, but also serv-ing as a witness to the saving power and love of God. I am so grateful for these co-laborers and our opportunities to work together for God’s Kingdom.

“Behold, how good and

pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity.”

Psalm 133:1 ESV

Jay McCabe (center) with Donell Woodson (OneWay staff) and Greg

Hsu (Asian InterVarsity staff).

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I walked down to Elliewood Avenue earlier this afternoon on my way to Para Coffee. I stopped short when the menu outside the Biltmore Grill caught my eye. My mind immedi-ately went back to the last time I had eaten there. It was with Julia Green and her roommate Joanna Currey on a Saturday evening in late March. They were helping me host an admit-ted student who was wrestling with whether or not to come to U.Va. Julia had persuaded us to go to her favorite restaurant, the Biltmore, as we walked toward the Corner on that cool spring evening. She wanted to showcase the best for a student who, in her mind, really ought to come to U.Va. anyway.

As we read over our menus that night, I remember asking Julia what she’d recommend for us. “Everything,” she enthusiasti-cally proclaimed, “Everything is my favorite.” She then breezed through the menu, annotating each item with a reason for its most-favored status. I remember looking at her quizzically during this exercise, wanting to say, “Really, Julia? Everything

is your favorite? How about the Blackened Shrimp Alfredo? Surely that can’t be something to write home about.”

But I didn’t. Instead I saw something beautiful underway through her words and actions that continued into the rest of our evening’s activities. She took delight in hosting us, sharing her faith boldly, and hearing this student’s hopes and dreams for pursuing Christ while at U.Va. In doing so, she made this student feel right at home.

Walking away from the sign today, I was filled with a bit-tersweet mixture of loss and gratitude. Like so many of us, I grieve Julia’s absence. That’s a loss we will continue to feel. But I know too that we will continue to remember Julia—what she meant to us while she was here along with her vibrant faith in Jesus. And I know that we’ll remember that, though she is away from the body—to her loss and ours—she is also at home with the Lord.

REMEMBERING JULIA

Julia (right) pictured here with her friend, Lisa Myers, during Exam Snacks at the Study Center in May 2012. (Photo by Elisa Bricker.)

by Shelly Pellish, Director of Development, Alumni + Parent Relationsshelly@studycenter.net

IN OUR LIBRARY: RESOURCES ON GRIEF

STUDYCENTER.NET/LIBRARY | CATALOG.STUDYCENTER.NET

LAMENT FOR A SONby Nicholas Wolterstorff

A beautiful, very personal reflection of his own loss. Wolterstorff names and validates the experience of his grief, the awfulness of death, and the Christian hope of resurrection.

by Jerry Sittser

Sittser provides help in thinking about how to respond to loss and how grace can transform us through the grieving process.

by N.T. Wright

Wright points us to the fullness of the Christian hope: Our hope is to be with the Lord in a bodily resurrection to a renewed earth, restored to its created goodness and glorified with God’s presence.

Editor’s note: Julia Green, one of our rising second-year students, died

in a car accident on Saturday evening, July 7, 2012, after spending

the day in Charlottesville. She was the youngest of four siblings who

attended U.Va. and who were part of the Study Center ministry.

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FALL 2012EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSPlease join us in any of our lectures or Saturday Seminars this fall, free of charge. Register on our website by visiting www.studycenter.net/lectures or www.studycenter.net/seminars. We encourage you to check our website for updated dates, times and locations of all events.

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HOW TO BE A CHRISTIAN IN COLLEGEWednesday, September 5, 6 pm with Lane Cowin*for undergrad students

HOW WE GRIEVE: A CONVERSATION WITH STUDENTSTuesday, September 11, 6 pm with John & Susan Cunningham*for undergrad students

UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE: THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF SCRIPTURESaturday, September 15, 1 - 4 pm with Bill Wilder

PUT A RING ON IT: THE DIFFERENCE MARRIAGE MAKES FOR COUPLES, CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIESTuesday, October 16, 5 - 6:30 pm with Brad Wilcox

IMAGINING THE KINGDOM: CULTURAL FORMATION AND FORMATION IN WORSHIPThursday, November 1, 8 - 9:30 pm with James K.A. Smith

THINKING GREEK: ADDRESSING THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR CHRISTIANS IN THE GREEK SYSTEMWednesday, November 28, 6 - 7 pm with Jay McCabe and Grounds ministry partners*for undergrad students

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FALL 2012 SMALL GROUPSstudycenter.net/smallgroupsPlease check our website for the meeting times and locations of our fall small groups.

FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Undergraduate Men’s Bible Study with Jay McCabe

Undergraduate Women’s Bible Study with Lane Cowin

Undergraduate Women’s Small Group with Jen Paterno

Spiritual Disciplines: The Practice of Being with and Hearing from God with Lane Cowin

Learning to Grieve: Readings from Lament for a Son with Study Center staff

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Christian Fellowhip Bible Studies with Fitz Green

Darden Christian Fellowship Bible Studies with Bill Wilder

Law Christian Fellowship Bible Studies with Fitz Green

FOR STUDENTS & COMMUNITY

The Historical Jesus Reading Group with Fitz Green

Faith, Reason and Science Reading Group with Bill Wilder

The 5th Gospel: Reading Isaiah with the Church with Fitz Green

Redeeming Tradition Reading Group with Ken Myers

New Testament Greek Reading Group with Fitz Green

Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good with Amy Sherman

FALL 2012 COURSESstudycenter.net/coursesPlease visit our website to for costs, descriptions and registration.

A STORY IN SEARCH OF AN ENDING: INTERPRETING THE OLD TESTAMENT WITHIN HISTORY AND SCRIPTUREThursdays, 9/6 - 12/13, 6:30 - 8:30 pmwith Bill Wilder

CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW: LIVING THE STORYThursdays, 9/6 - 12/13, 9:30 am - 12:30 pmwith John Cunningham

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“What is it like to be a Christian professor at the University of Virginia Law School?” In many ways, being a Christian professor is just like being a pro-fessor of any stripe. Like my secular (and believing) colleagues, I teach classes, counsel students, write articles, and attend conferences. In many particulars our work looks the same. But over the years the Holy Spirit has changed me in ways that have transformed how I think about my work and how I relate to col-leagues and students.

One of the biggest lessons of my personal and pro-fessional life is that the most important tool I have is myself: I cannot give what I do not have. (Of course, the Holy Spirit can use us in spite of our-selves.) But, in large measure, the things I am able to give my students and colleagues are the things the Lord has pressed into my own life.

For example, many law students experience a profound crisis after their first semester at the Law School. All of them have come from top-notch schools where they graduated at the very top of their class. But at the Law School we grade to a strict

B+ mean. This means that some students who have always been at the top will be in the middle or even at the bottom. For Christian students the crisis is even more profound: many of them had a sense of being called to be in law school—or at least they thought it was the right place to be—and they fear that their alleged “fail-ure” calls all this into question. It wasn’t until I came to terms with my own failures and unful-filled dreams—and the idolatry of success that such failures expose—that I had much to offer my students.

For the last ten years I have ended my first-year torts class with a talk about the dangers of being defined by grades: the temptation to give up in the face of perceived failure as well as the slavery to “resume-chasing” that can result from success. I end by

inviting students to come find me in my office if they need to hear parts of the talk again after the grades come out. Some of them always do. While it is a special privilege to explore the spiritual dimensions of these issues with some of my students (and pray for them if they will let me), these sessions always come with the sweet assurance of having spoken truth and encour-agement to students with aching hearts.

The Lord has also used me to care for students and colleagues who have experienced loss. In 2005 I lost my closest friend when she died suddenly and tragically at age 47 from menin-gitis. I had walked through losses with friends before, but only had a glimmer of an idea what

BEING A CHRISTIAN PROFESSOR AT U.VA. LAWby Barb Armacost, U.Va. Professor of Law, Study Center Board Chair

Barb is pictured here (fourth from right) with the 2011-12 Law Christian Fellowship Leadership Team. She is an active faculty supporter of Law Christian Fellowship and the Center for Christian Study.

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they were going through. Only by experiencing my own loss do I know a little more. I know that it takes a long time to grieve and many years before you feel even halfway normal. I know the Holy Spirit’s comfort is as big as our grief. And I know that God shows up in the words and hugs of friends.

But, you might ask, what about sharing the message of the gospel with students and col-leagues? Isn’t that what a Christian profes-sor ought to be about? Of course, the most important gift I can offer is the truth of the gospel. But I have come to believe that in evangelism, listening is more important than speaking. Most people come to faith through a relationship with someone they trust, not through a one-time conversation or a five-minute presentation of the gospel. And the right to speak in a real rela-tionship requires a willingness to listen. A seminary professor once assigned his students to write a paper on the world-view of a non-believing friend. He explained that learning the perspective of the other person is the first step in evangelism. Sadly, some of his students complained that they didn’t know any non-believers to interview!

Thankfully this would not be true of Christian stu-dents at the Law School, who are fully engaged in the life of the school. Many Law Christian Fellowship students participate in the Law School’s Public Service Program, defying stereotypes that link Christians only to politically conservative issues. LCF students are members and officers of the Law School’s academic journals, winners in the Moot Court competition, and leaders of organizations that sponsor speakers and conferences, defying stereotypes of the unthinking evangelical. Their goal is to be involved in issues they care about, which are as diverse as working for afford-able housing, advocating for migrant workers, pursu-ing international human rights, and providing child care at a women’s shelter. One of my greatest plea-sures in recent years was to accompany a group of LCF students to the International Justice Mission’s Global Prayer Gathering, where we spent the weekend wor-shiping, praying and hearing stories about IJM’s work around the world. In all this my students are defined by what they are “for” and not what they are “against,” as has become the sad state of much of Christendom.1 As my students and I engage fully with our peers and

colleagues, we learn to know them and earn the right to offer an account for the hope that we have.

One of the most important things I have come to un-

derstand is why any of the work I do on earth—teach-ing, writing and mentoring students—matters. Jesus did not come to save souls for a disembodied eternity, and He did not call us to get saved, get other people saved, and then wait around to go to heaven. Jesus came to rescue all of creation from bondage to decay by bringing heaven and earth together in a glorious new creation. While it is a mystery exactly how, the new heavens and the new earth will have continu-ity with the earth we now inhabit. The restoration began with Jesus’ ministry on earth, when He called people to repent and believe, but also cared for the whole person, healing the sick, restoring sight and raising the dead. The knowledge that the new heav-ens and new earth will be a re-creation of the earth I have come to know and love puts a whole new spin on everything I do. I am part of an eternal renovation project that Jesus inaugurated by His earthly ministry, death and resurrection. If I am seeking His Kingdom then I will be in the stream of restoration that He is already doing. This makes being a Christian professor at the U.Va. Law School an amazing adventure!

1 See David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, Unchristian: What a New Generation Thinks About Christianity . . . and Why it Matters 26 (Baker Books 2007).

Barb Armacost has been a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School since 1992. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (BS in Nursing, 1976), Regent College, University of British Columbia (MTS, New Testament and Ethics, 1983), and the Univer-sity of Virginia School of Law (JD, 1989). She has been involved with the Study Center ministry since its early days and has served multiple terms on the Board of Directors for the Center for Christian Study.

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